trigger.html - See: QUICK ON THE TRIGGER.

trigger.html - {adj. phr.} Ready to shoot without warning; fast with a gun. * /He's a dangerous criminal quick on the trigger./ 2. {informal} Fast at answering questions or solving problems. * /In class discussions John is always quick on the trigger./

trigger.html - See: QUICK ON THE TRIGGER(1).

trigger.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a movable device for releasing a spring or catch and so setting off a mechanism (esp. that of a gun).
2 an event, occurrence, etc., that sets off a chain reaction.

--v.

tr.
1 (often foll. by off) set (an action or process) in motion; initiate, precipitate.
2 fire (a gun) by the use of a trigger.

quick on the trigger quick to respond. trigger fish any usu. tropical marine fish of the family Balistidae with a first dorsal fin-spine which can be depressed by pressing on the second. trigger-happy apt to shoot without or with slight provocation.

triggered adj. [17th-c. tricker f. Du. trekker f. trekken pull: cf. TREK]

trigger.html - See: QUICK ON THE TRIGGER.

trigger.html - {adj. phr.} Ready to shoot without warning; fast with a gun. * /He's a dangerous criminal quick on the trigger./ 2. {informal} Fast at answering questions or solving problems. * /In class discussions John is always quick on the trigger./